So, what's the answer to the question I asked then? Should weapon parts be removed as a requirement because players like you are too lazy to pace themselves with them? I've been playing the TTK since its launch as well and, if I haven't gone up a tiny bit in parts, I'm certainly not far down from where I was. I still have over 1000 on my main alone an that's with updating virtually every exotic I get (4th horseman, hawk moon, ntte, black spindle, sleeper, chaperone, etc) as well as several raid weapons, and normal legendaries (including gunsmith ones). I've also gone UP in my motes of light count despite spending those on those weapons too (from 450 to 500 now). Perhaps the difference is I don't get a new legendary and think "oooooh... Shiny. TAKE ALL MY OF MOTES/PARTS!!" If you want a "manual" answer, I'd say learn to be capable of judging a weapon without fully upgrading it first. I certainly didn't need to sink 30+ weapon parts into the raid fusion rifle/scout rifle to learn I did not like them. If you and others out there can't control your virtual resource spending, it certainly doesn't mean it's Bungie that sucks.